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Pressure cleaners, sometimes also referred to as waterblasters, high pressure water cleaners, steam cleaners (in relation to hot water pressure cleaners), is an industry generally dominated by the Italians with large manufacturing support.

Ten to fifteen years ago, over 60 manufacturers of pressure cleaners existed in Italy which is by far the largest in the world. It is only very recently that China has really entered this industry and now have many companies making pressure cleaners, most of the cloning machine made in Italy.

Whilst the entry of China into the pressure cleaner market has been very quick, the quality of both the materials and the quality control of the manufacturing process still has a long way to go to seriously challenge the years of research and development which has put the Italians at the top of the tree as an industry.

China have made a particularly large entry into the petrol powered pressure cleaner market, especially cloning motors such as Honda. While the developing Chinese market is lucrative due to the low manufacting costs, the pressure cleaners in this area of the market provide an affordable options compared to the smaller electric cleaners that do not match the quality of other manufacturers.

Small electric pressure cleaners have been manufactured in China in small numbers with different degrees of reliability success, but they have been limited in producing hot water pressure cleaners. The Hot Water pressure cleaner which basically heats it’s own water in the unit after it has been pressurized, is a much more complicated unit than the much simpler, less complex cold water pressure cleaner. Once quality control improves and the quality of steel is also improved, Chinese machines will quickly become take over the marker share in relation to hot water pressure cleaners.

The Pressure Cleaner industry world wide is enormous but the Industry as a group is very disorganised as a collective body and as such there is very little statistical data available on realistic market size, market share and joint manufacturing research and development.The larger companies are concerned about sharing technologies and sales figures, therefore have no immediate want for an all encompassing body.

The other stumbling block with obtaining statistics from companies is that not of them rely on the same markets.Some focus solely on the small domestic markets with electric cleaners, others on the industrial markets with large petrol machines while the main companies manufacture machines for all types of markets.

Domestic or hobby machines make up most of the market, especially in Australia based on number of sales alone. These sales numbers may be the same elsewhere in the world, although there’s no statistical data to prove this.

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